Pipistrellus grandidieri

• Main Authors: Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara, Hutterer, Rainer
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae; Pipistrellus; Pipistrellus grandidieri; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4336022; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4336022

Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri (Dobson, 1876) New material ZFMK 2008.0300, ♀, FC, 8 March 2008; ZFMK 2008.0301, ♂, FC, 9 March 2008; ZFMK 2008. 0302, ♂, W1, 25 February 2008. One individual was caught in the canopy net set over the creek in the ravine forest at W1 and three individuals of this species were captured at FC. The female from FC carried one embryo of 17 mm crown-rump length. Field notes and photographs document the somewhat yellowish fur of the W1 individual. Our three voucher specimens grouped with a specimen from Mount Nimba (DM 13220/ JX 508839) labelled Pipistrellus sp. 1 in Monadjem et al. (2013 b). We tentatively assign them to Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri, similar to a specimen from Fetto (near Foye, Karanka River) in the Fouta Djallon Region of Guinea (Weber and Fahr, 2007 b) and specimens from Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Cameroon (Monadjem and Fahr, 2007; Weber and Fahr, 2007 b). A first country record from Atewa, Ghana, was also referred to as Neoromicia cf. grandidieri by Weber and Fahr (2007 a), but our genetic results (Fig. 3) do not support this generic allocation. Our measurements agree well with those of the holotype Vesperugo (Vesperus) grandidieri Dobson, 1876 (Thorn et al., 2007) and they are much smaller than measurements of the newly described species Neoromicia roseveari (Monadjem et al., 2013 b). Given that the holotype of P. grandidieri is from Zanzibar (Thorn et al., 2007), this West African form might “possibly represent an undescribed species” (Monadjem and Fahr, 2007: 105). However, x -ray photographs of the baculum of ZFMK 2008.0302 (Fig. 9) showed notable similarity with the drawing of the baculum of P. grandidieri grandidieri from Bamba Mluni, Tanzania (SMF 83513) in Thorn et al. (2007: Fig 2). Conservation status The conservation status of this species has not yet been evaluated by the IUCN (2015). Published as part of Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat ...